1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 3 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 4 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Elliot Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Bronis, 5 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones, and it's time for a 6 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: morning after edition of Talking Cowboys. On a very windy 7 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: Monday in Frisco, Texas, all of a sudden, about an 8 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: hour ago, a blue northern blew in and the temperature 9 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: to drop from about sixty four degrees to forty four 10 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: degrees in no time at all. And the temperature has 11 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: dropped on this Cowboys season here and after what happened 12 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: last night, as we embark on the second half of 13 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: this season, after the loss to the Vikings last night, 14 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty four. But before we get into all 15 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,479 Speaker 1: of that, we want to wish a very good Veterans 16 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,759 Speaker 1: Day to everyone out there, very important day. Let's keep 17 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: this stuff in perspective and just keep a thought for 18 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 1: all of those who who make it possible for us 19 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: to enjoy NFL football. And I know I've got some 20 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: veterans in my family who've passed on, including my father 21 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: who served in the Navy, and his brothers, one who 22 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: died in the war, and it's very important holiday for 23 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: all of us. Mickey, how are you doing, Rob, How 24 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,080 Speaker 1: are you doing doing good? My dad served in the 25 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,759 Speaker 1: army in World War Two? So yeah, was there the 26 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: second D Day landed on Normandy Beach, Omaha Beach? As 27 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: say in Normandy, it's well said, Bill, My dad Uncle's 28 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: got to keep things in perspective, right, even on a 29 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: day like this where it's a disappointing loss for the Cowboys. 30 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: Hard fuck game, but you know they lost to a 31 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 1: good team. Didn't make enough plays on either side of 32 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 1: the ball at the end, yep, and it came right 33 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: down to the wire. I know that many of you 34 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: would like to chime in as well. We'll open up 35 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: the phone lines here over the course of the next 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: forty five minutes. You can do that at eight eight eight, eight, five, 37 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: five two two nine seven. But let's start with your 38 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: takeaways from what happened on Sunday night. Well, where to begin? 39 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: It's a deep subject. It's very complicated, as I've simplified 40 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 1: for my column that should be posted any time now. 41 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: I thought the biggest takeaway was the Cowboys just basically 42 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: got out physical, out muscled in that game. Both lines 43 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: of scrimmage on offense couldn't run the ball. Defense they 44 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: couldn't stop the run. And when you have problems with 45 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: those two things, I don't care anything about your sky 46 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: War offenses right there. It is at some point you 47 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 1: got to stop the run, and at some point you've 48 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: got to be able to run the ball at least 49 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: a little bit to be able to keep balance. In 50 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: this game, the Cowboys could do neither. And that's been 51 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: a recipe for losses previously to very good teams when 52 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: they can't stop the run. They couldn't stop the run 53 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 1: against the Packers and they got beat. They had problems 54 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: stopping some big plays against the Saints, they got beat. 55 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: I'll take you back to last year in the playoff 56 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 1: game against the Rams the regular season game against the 57 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: Indianapolis Coats. Those teams used the Cowboys aggressiveness defensively against them, 58 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: and the Vikings did exactly the same thing, especially in 59 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: the second half. So here we are with another close 60 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: call down to the wire. If you've lost now your 61 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: four games or three of the four games by a 62 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: total of eight points and you're five and four, tied 63 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: for first in the NFC East. And I don't think 64 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,760 Speaker 1: anybody's celebrating that it's still in front of you. But 65 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 1: I mean, you start looking at the standings and you've 66 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,279 Speaker 1: lost some teams that it could come down to tiebreakers 67 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: at the end, So you got to focus on your division. 68 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 1: As far as Sunday night, it's it's funny how it's 69 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: such a week to week league, right, you know, two games, 70 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: the last two games, defensively they get seven takeaways. They 71 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: do a really solid job all the way around defensively, 72 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: and Mickey spoke to it. Dalvin Cook he's a different 73 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,520 Speaker 1: beast and they knew that coming in. They did a 74 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: nice job on him running against the run for a half. 75 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: I think he had twenty seven yards at halftime, but 76 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: he also had that's the other part of his game. 77 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: And I talked about it during the week. There's a 78 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: little bit of Barkley to him, sae quon Barkley. His 79 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: ability in the passing game in those two screens led 80 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: to two early touchdowns, especially when there's no defensive guys 81 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: in front of him. Well, they did a nice job 82 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: locking it up you know, I think that the second 83 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: one he had for thirty yards, you saw two guys 84 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: push Sean Lee out of bounds and out of the play. 85 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: I mean, they really execute those well. And as Mickey said, 86 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: as the second half got rolling, they kind of controlled 87 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, not only with Cook but with Madison, 88 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: their rookie did a nice job running the ball. They 89 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: went with two tight ends a lot, they went with 90 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: the fullback, and they just lined up and did what 91 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: they had to do, physical running football, and that was 92 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: the difference offensively. Of course, Dak was tarrendous and they 93 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:34,080 Speaker 1: made a lot of plays in the passing game. So Bill, yes, 94 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: have you ever seen? And I wish I could go 95 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,599 Speaker 1: back and count up the plays. How many times the 96 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: Viking used twelve personnel, twenty two personnel and thirteen personnel 97 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: in a game. It was almost like, we gotta sign 98 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: up here. We are gonna run right at you, and 99 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: I don't care if you know we're coming. I don't 100 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: care if we've got two tight ends in a full 101 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: back out there with a running back, or if we've 102 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: got just three tight ends, one wide receiver and a 103 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: running back. We are going to run right at you. 104 00:06:10,279 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 1: They made no bones about it. They didn't disguise it. 105 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,320 Speaker 1: They went old school with c. J. Hamm at full backs. Yes, 106 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: and and I don't know what you do, you know, 107 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,360 Speaker 1: can you go with five defensive linemen and just three 108 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: defensive backs because they weren't going to throw it? But 109 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,280 Speaker 1: that none of that is a surprise. It wasn't like 110 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: they they what they have done. I assumed throughout the season. 111 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: I know recently in fact, last week CJ. Hamm had 112 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: twenty two snaps. And we talked about it last week 113 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: that the Cowboys will see more two tight end or 114 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: fullback in a tight end or three tight end formations 115 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 1: in this game than they've seen all season. Because I 116 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: mean even like last week, Rudolph and and Herb Smith, 117 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: they were both one was on the field for fifty 118 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,560 Speaker 1: five plays, the other forty three plays. Leakwin Treadwell was 119 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:58,840 Speaker 1: their third receivers only on the field for twenty snaps 120 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 1: in the entire game. We go and I haven't looked 121 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,599 Speaker 1: at the snap counts for this week yet, but it 122 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: shouldn't come as a surprise that that was what they 123 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,400 Speaker 1: were going to do. And that is how they built 124 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: this team. They already had a second round draft pick 125 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: in Dalvin Cook, and they spent a third round draft 126 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: pick on Madison this year because they want to emphasize 127 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: and help out their quarterback. It was prone to mistakes. 128 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: You have to be able to run the football. Mickey 129 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: and I talked about that on the walk out two 130 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,119 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, that this isn't Washington for Kirk Cousins. 131 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: I mean, they've Cowboys have played him a lot. He'll 132 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: give you a turnover every now, at least in Washington. 133 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: He did. He's only got three picks in this game 134 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: or this season, no takeaways for the Cowboys. He did 135 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: an effective job managing the game and he got his 136 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: tight ends involved, especially down in the red zone. It 137 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: was it was good, just good balance and you know, 138 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: good game plan for Minnesota. And not only did they 139 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,040 Speaker 1: run for one hundred and fifty three yards, but their 140 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 1: three leading receivers in the game were a running back, 141 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: a tight end, and a tight end. Those guys counted 142 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: for six teen passes, sixteen receptions. Diggs he made one 143 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: play in the entire game, and oh what a play 144 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: it was, and it was worth three points, right, and 145 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: important three points because if they don't get that field 146 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: goal at the end of the half. Yeah, you know, 147 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: it's a different story on the last basically the last 148 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 1: full drive the Cowboys had possessioned in the game. And oh, 149 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: by the way, another reason that it would was no 150 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: surprise they would have this game plan is the fact 151 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: they were playing without their best receiver, Adam Feeling. Yeah. 152 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: I mean you look at the box score and you say, Okay, 153 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: there's no Feeling Diggs is gonna get you three catches 154 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: for forty nine yards. You're taken that. I mean, yeah, 155 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: I would take that, But you also don't want seven 156 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: catches for eighty six by Dalvin Cook. And he's got 157 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,679 Speaker 1: eight out of nine games this year one hundred and 158 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: all purpose yards plus. I mean, the guys, he's outstanding. 159 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 1: He slipped through tackles, explosive at the point of attack. 160 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: I mean, he's He's the best back they've seen this 161 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 1: year in terms of what the production on the field, 162 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 1: better than Barkley, especially the way the Vikings use him. 163 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: There are times where the Giants don't use Barkley when 164 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,679 Speaker 1: they should be using him. Guy On, Barkley only had 165 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: one yard on thirteen carries yesterday right against the Jets. 166 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 1: And by the way, speaking of the Jets, Okay, this 167 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 1: game right here, it was a terrific matchup. I mean, 168 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: when you set back and look at it, it was 169 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: a terrific matchup for a Sunday night marquee. Two offenses 170 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: going at each other, all right, one team's gotta win, 171 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: one team's gotta lose, okay. And what it underscores more 172 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 1: than anything is the ridiculousness of the loss to the Jets. 173 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: I mean, that Jets loss is going to come back 174 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: and haunt this team. And because these games against the Vikings, Okay, 175 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: it's gonna go either way. Yeah, it's gonna go either way. 176 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,239 Speaker 1: The game in two weeks from now against the Patriots, 177 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: it can go either way. The result here is disappointing, 178 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: but it shouldn't shock you. Then. I think we all 179 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 1: thought this would be a pretty close contest. That's why 180 00:09:56,960 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 1: you gotta take care of business against the teams that 181 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: they've all the other teams that they have taken care 182 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 1: of business against, And so I mean they should be 183 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: sitting here six and three instead of five and four 184 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: if they would have taken care of business against the 185 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: Jets like you guys are coming over to my dark 186 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: side on that. I was always there. I mean, it happened. 187 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,319 Speaker 1: It's gonna come back at some point. It's gonna come 188 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,040 Speaker 1: back in Well, they have to get one of these. 189 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: They have to get these wins, like the Patriots. They 190 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:27,679 Speaker 1: need to get a win now. I mean the importance 191 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: of its Detroit game is just through the roof right 192 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: now when you look at you got the Patriots the 193 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,719 Speaker 1: next week. But but they need to steal a win 194 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: in New England to upset the Jets loss. Oh, no question. 195 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: And these those losses happen. I mean, I know it's 196 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: a division game. But the Saints lose to a one 197 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: and seven Falcons team yesterday at home. Yeah, those losses happen. 198 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: But yeah, you're gonna have to be able to steal one. 199 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 1: This would have been a nice one for sure. The 200 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: difference is the Saints got that win with their backup 201 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: quarterback against the Cowboys. Yeah to to opset I yesterday. Yeah, Well, 202 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 1: same recipe though, right fall behind, slow start, and you 203 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: know what I did? You explain it if it's one thing, 204 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,439 Speaker 1: But it's one thing. If your offense malfunctions or didn't malfunctions, 205 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:14,680 Speaker 1: they had they ended up with two thirds and sixes 206 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: on those first two possessions, and they didn't They didn't convert. 207 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: They tried a fifty seven yard field goal and it 208 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 1: was the worst field goal attempt ever ever that he missed. 209 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: That was terrible. God, you never gave the ball a chance, right, 210 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: But that doesn't he missed it by fifty seven yards. Yeah, no, no, 211 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: but it was he didn't hit it. It was like 212 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 1: a lion. He didn't get the foot on it. Ken 213 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: Harrelson duck snort, it's over my head. But okay, but okay, 214 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: So you don't score your first two possessions, but that 215 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: doesn't mean the defense has to give up two touchdowns 216 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 1: on the first. Well, well, you you miss a fifty 217 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: seven yard field goal and it's like a turnover. Yeah 218 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,839 Speaker 1: it is. You're in the ball at midfield. And so 219 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 1: you wonder if okay, we've fallen in love a little 220 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: too much with the long field goals. That one. I 221 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: don't I don't put it on the defense. I know 222 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 1: they gave up a touchdown, but like Mickey said, Minnesota 223 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: starts at their own forty seven. And I looked at 224 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: up Maher's fourteen of twenty this year on field goals. 225 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: He's four of eight fifty plus and I know a 226 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: couple I think we're sixty plus that he hit. It's 227 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: not a gimme, you know, it's not a gimme fifty 228 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: proposition that you're gonna basically have a turnover. Yeah there, 229 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: And I know Jason Garrett said they got a lot 230 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: of faith in him, and they should. He's great from 231 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: that distance, but he's not. He's not automatic and it 232 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: you know that that was a momentum swing early, no question, 233 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: but at least give the ball a chance, like if 234 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: it came up short or if it was just wide 235 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: to the right or hit the upright. All right, fine, 236 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: this thing landed over almost to the sideline. It seemed like, 237 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: all right, I exaggerate, but i'd actually where it might 238 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:58,679 Speaker 1: have it. And I don't know if it ever got 239 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,920 Speaker 1: high enough to get over this cross. I think it 240 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: went out. They ramp and it rolled up the hill 241 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: and it wound up over by the ballpark in Armada. 242 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: It was like it was trying to catch that cat 243 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: from last week. Okay, all right, but the slow start. 244 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: So that's seven of nine games they've been behind him. 245 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: Explain it. And one of them that they worked behind. 246 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: They were leading the Dolphins ten six at halftime. That's 247 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: almost like being behind. What's that? What's the reason for 248 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: this time? They just didn't execute and they didn't play 249 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 1: good defense. I mean the first couple of possessions they 250 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:37,960 Speaker 1: and this was no surprise either. They blitzed right shocking. 251 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 1: You said that during the week. We know on third 252 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: down they're coming after you. And they created problems early 253 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 1: in the game until the Cowboys. I don't know if 254 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 1: they adjusted or they finally beat it enough that they 255 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: backed off, and that's probably why they ended up with 256 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: what four hundred, four hundred and forty seven yards offense 257 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: and dac three ninety seven passing. I thought Dak got 258 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: some nice protection in the second half, but some of 259 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 1: it But was him too yeah, oh by an extra time? 260 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: He was. He was amazing in the game, no question 261 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: about it. Um. But I think he got hit nine times, yes, 262 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,679 Speaker 1: and they got after him and and uh, like we 263 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: talked about it, Griffin on one edge Hunter on the other. 264 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: There that's a that's a load, um. But they made 265 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: a lot of plays in the passing game. I know 266 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: that one of the narratives coming out is going to 267 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: be did they run too much, particularly on first down? 268 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:32,200 Speaker 1: And Jason Garrett on the fan this morning, I think 269 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:34,520 Speaker 1: alluded to it. You alluded to it to Mick. When 270 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: you're blitzing like that, you're trying to establish some semblance 271 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: of balance. They try to do that against the Jets, 272 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: to just try to keep them away, keep them back way. 273 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: Jason was saying this this morning, well when he said, 274 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: you're trying to keep them at least a little bit 275 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,840 Speaker 1: honest if you can, um, because they were, and I 276 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: think that's his quote in Jason there hell bent on 277 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: stopping the run and U and they did. They did 278 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: burn them on the blitz, especially with some of those 279 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: crossing routes and those slants by Mari. But they really 280 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: did sell out to stop Zeke and two point four 281 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: yards of carry. 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They're just getting out, mickey, 341 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: and so that's why they don't do the watch party. 342 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,520 Speaker 1: That ideas, Okay, that's nothing to do with the opponent 343 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,880 Speaker 1: hurt the attendance at Texas Stadium when they were playing 344 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 1: all those noon games. Yes it did. Yeah, supposedly it 345 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: was a later arriving. It was always was. Fortunately we 346 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: don't have very many noon kickoffs anymore, but the okay 347 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 1: at Sunday, Omember twenty fourth from Sunday Cowboys and the Patriots, 348 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: and by the way, the Lions will be very interesting 349 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: to monitor this week whether Matthew Stafford will be playing 350 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: for the Lions after he did not play yesterday and 351 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: Jeff Driscoll was the starting quarterback as the Lions lost 352 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: to the Chicago Bears. All right, let's dive into the 353 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: second to last possession for the Cowboys against the Vikings. 354 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:25,399 Speaker 1: They matriculate their way all the way down the field. 355 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: I started with a terrific pass from dactor Randall Cobb 356 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 1: to get out of a hole, and they're moving it 357 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 1: down the field and then they get down to a 358 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: second and two at what the twelve yard liner? So 359 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: and two straight run plays. What do you think with 360 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:44,680 Speaker 1: those two calls? Go ahead? Mick? I was okay, I 361 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:50,320 Speaker 1: would say with the first one because it was two 362 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: yards right. The second one, Zeke said it was supposed 363 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:01,639 Speaker 1: to be an RPO, but it didn't matter what they 364 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: had called on that um because the defensive lineman blew 365 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: up the play and the Cowboys had to do better 366 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,760 Speaker 1: job of blocking on that play. Uh, it's third and 367 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: basically third and goal at the eleven, and what happened 368 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: third and well, yeah, third and two. I'm sorry. I 369 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,320 Speaker 1: put a goal there, the third and two at the 370 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:36,360 Speaker 1: eleven and odin Ogbo good enough. It's pretty close. Yeah, 371 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, that's what the pronunciation thing says. Okay, 372 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: that's it really yeah, Okay, Um, it's wrong too. Connor Williams. 373 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: Connor Williams gets the right shoulder on him. He cut 374 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: to the inside it and I can't tell what he 375 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,800 Speaker 1: was supposed to do because he kind of got him 376 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,920 Speaker 1: and then he went to the second level. So to me, 377 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: there there there were is not going to be a 378 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: pass play because if if he had pulled the ball back, 379 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: he was down field already. And unfortunately he didn't get 380 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: enough of them because by time Travis Frederick came over, 381 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: he got through and he blew up the play for 382 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: what was it a three yard loss? So but here's 383 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 1: what I go back to. So how about the third 384 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: to the last possession, you got first in goal at 385 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: the six yard line, you run zeke for nothing or 386 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: one yard where they get a field goal. Yeah, and 387 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,080 Speaker 1: then what did you do the next two plays, by 388 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 1: the way, tried to throw and Stephen Weatherly comes in 389 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: and blows the play up, and you got to throw 390 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: the ball away out of bounds to save from getting 391 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: a sack. All right, and down third down? What did 392 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 1: they do? Through the ball again and over the middle 393 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: to Jason Witten in the end zone and Kendricks runs 394 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: into him, he gets knocked down, the ball goes incomplete. 395 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: I had Harrison Smith, but good enough. Yeah, and uh, 396 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: go back and look at it, by the way, and 397 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 1: then you got to kick a field goal. So you 398 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 1: left four points on the field on a first and 399 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: goal at the six. You threw the ball twice and 400 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 1: it didn't work. Next time, you ran the ball twice 401 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: and it didn't work. So which which is at fault 402 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: because those four points you left on the field that 403 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: first time you cost you the game. Yeah, they went 404 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: one for three in the red zone and and missed 405 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: a field goal. You know, that's that's pretty much the 406 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: difference in the game right there. That last the second 407 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,919 Speaker 1: to last drive your reference, Bill, I mean, on the RPO, 408 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: the defense is going to dictate basically what you got 409 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: to do there. Um. Amari Cooper was asked about it, 410 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 1: you know, second and he said, a second and two, 411 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 1: it's Zeke. You know we're gonna run the ball with Zeke. 412 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: It's Zeke Elliott. Yeah, I had I had no problem 413 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: with the second and two run of Zeke. And you're trying, 414 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: I mean, am I wrong that you're you're trying not 415 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 1: to leave. You think you're you haven't scored, you think 416 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,960 Speaker 1: you're gonna score, or your confident you can score, but 417 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 1: you don't want to leave too much time in the 418 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: clock see Green Bay Playoff game twenty January twenty seventeen. Um, 419 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,359 Speaker 1: but they didn't. They didn't get there. And you also 420 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: want to keep your time outs. Yeah, that too, but 421 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 1: you know Zeke gets gets stopped there. I think his 422 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: longest rush in the game was was six yards. I mean, 423 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: they did it, like Mickey said, they did a good 424 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: job at the at the point of attack with the 425 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: Vikings defensive line and the stat from David Moore, I 426 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:38,439 Speaker 1: don't know, did you. I guess you looked it up 427 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: as yourself as well. I think it was Bob Thomas. 428 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 1: Was it Bob Thomas? Actually it's in it's in the 429 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,359 Speaker 1: I was surprised. It's in the record portion of the 430 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,959 Speaker 1: media guide. Okay, third time in franchise history they did 431 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,639 Speaker 1: not run for a first down in a game. I mean, 432 00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: that's that tells you everything you need to know about 433 00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: about you know, their their struggles to get balanced in 434 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 1: this game. You let me tell you how bad that is. 435 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: How bad is that? So the last time that occurred 436 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: was two thousand and seven, the final game of the season, 437 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 1: when they basically punted against the Redskins. Remember they pulled 438 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: everybody out. They already had their record. I think of 439 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: what it was going to be if I remember correctly, 440 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 1: no rushing first towns. And the last time before that 441 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 1: that had happened nineteen sixty four, nineteen seventy November eleventh, 442 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 1: fifty seasons ago to the day m nineteen seventy, I 443 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: think it would be forty nine. Now it was fifty 444 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: either seasons. Okay, seasons here a long time, I got you. 445 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:51,480 Speaker 1: So that's how rare what you saw yesterday was fifty 446 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: fifty seasons, not years. Okay, let's go what that's like. 447 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 1: This is the sixtieth season. My reaction the third and 448 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: two run was what are they doing? Yeah? So I'm 449 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 1: second to two. I had no problem running at third 450 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: and two. I was like, whoa and what is that? Yeah, 451 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,760 Speaker 1: and then you get to fourth down and it's it's 452 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: to Zeke out out wide. Um, it looked like he 453 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,919 Speaker 1: might have had Cobb on that play, but I think 454 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: he had Cobby. It looked like he had a step. 455 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: But obviously you're you're rushed in that decision. You got 456 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: to you gotta make one quickly. He gave up looking 457 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: to the right. He looked to the right initially to 458 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: see what they did with Cooper and they had a 459 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: guy over the top of Cooper and they ran somebody 460 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: underneath them, so the slant wasn't there. And he quickly 461 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,840 Speaker 1: came off of it and he focused on Zeke and 462 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,360 Speaker 1: Cobb was breaking over the middle. Looked like he was open, 463 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: but he never saw him. All right, let's go to 464 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 1: Scott in Jersey. You're first up here on talking Cowboys. 465 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 1: Hello Scott, Hey, guys, good morning. Tough game last night. Um, 466 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: you know the Cowboys. The Cowboys are right there, and 467 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: I hate to harp on it, but the coaching last 468 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: night was terrible on both sides of the ball. We 469 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: just can't adjust how do you go for a fifty 470 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: yard field goal? Fifty four yard field goal when your 471 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,879 Speaker 1: first drive stalls out, you gotta punt that ball. You 472 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 1: gotta play defense. You don't know if Cook's gonna run 473 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: through you. But then again, then there's a fifty four 474 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: yard field goal. Again he doesn't vote for he punts it. 475 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: And not throwing the flag on Winton in the end zone. 476 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: It's I know you guys even say it's eleven percent 477 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 1: chance of it's overturning, but that was probably if anyone's 478 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,840 Speaker 1: gonna get overturned, that one's gonna get overturned. And one 479 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 1: other thing is with the coaching. When they're down, they're 480 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: down late in the game, you don't kick that field goals. 481 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,359 Speaker 1: You got to go for the touchdown. And then maybe 482 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: later on with another drive, you can do a fifty 483 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 1: four yard field goal, which would be totally acceptable. But 484 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 1: the coaching, the coaching in all aspects last night was 485 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: just broken down. They don't adjust. They just don't adjust. 486 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking my call and still a cowboy 487 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 1: fan for the rest of my life, and let's go 488 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 1: get him and beat up Detroit next week. It's hard 489 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 1: to be a fan it is is you win a 490 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 1: couple of games in a row, you think like you're 491 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: building momentum. All right, let me throw you a crazy 492 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: thing out there. And there's no way a coach would 493 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: ever do this. But once it got down on that 494 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 1: second to last possession, you wanted to kick the field. Yeah, 495 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,720 Speaker 1: I'm not saying I wanted them to kick the field. Go, 496 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying, what if to go down to go down one? Now? Okay, 497 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: listen to this, listen to this. Hear me out on this. Okay, 498 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 1: you had three time outs left, Okay, So what happened 499 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 1: as it turns out, Okay, he falls forward three times 500 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: and punts Minnesota. Minnesota punt it and you got the 501 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: ball bat well, And that's another question on the punt return, Tavon, 502 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: That wasn't that the fair catch? Jason Garrett was asked 503 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,560 Speaker 1: about that, By the way, he said, they told him 504 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,880 Speaker 1: if if you don't feel like you've got a good 505 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: opportunity to go north and south, you make the decision, 506 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: and he judged it. Tavon did and said, well, let's 507 00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: not waste time on the clock and let's just fair 508 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: catch it. Okay. But but as crazy as this sound, 509 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. You got three timeouts left, 510 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: and with whatever Minnesota called time out with forty two 511 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 1: seconds left on the fourth before the fourth and five play, 512 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 1: you kick the field goal and you make it a 513 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 1: one point game. You don't on sidekick, Okay, you can't 514 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 1: if you won, but you don't. You're not gonna get 515 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,639 Speaker 1: get it on sidekick. You're gon't on sidekick. You kick 516 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: it deep. Same scenario plays out, you stop them three times. 517 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 1: Now you're gonna have a little less No, you won't. 518 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 1: You'll have the same amount of time left, okay, because 519 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:33,520 Speaker 1: you kick it through the end zone. They take it 520 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 1: at twenty five okay, and you're gonna have a little 521 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 1: bit more yardage you'll have to make up. But you 522 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: got a kicker. You can kick sixty yard field goal. 523 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,880 Speaker 1: Where'd they get down to on that last drive? As 524 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: it was? Anyway they got to the It's crazy, but 525 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 1: if if a coach really believed in his team that 526 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,880 Speaker 1: they could stop him and believe in your kicker and everything, 527 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: it would be unbelievable if they did that. I'd love 528 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: to see Twitter if that didn't do. Yeah, imagine they 529 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: got they got to the Minnesota forty five. Just remember 530 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 1: though they they started they started at the fourteen right, 531 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 1: so there's ten yard difference there and they ended up 532 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 1: but they didn't even try. All they wanted to do 533 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:17,160 Speaker 1: was soaked the clock. And because they knew get the 534 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: time out, because they knew that the Cowboys needed a touchdown, right, 535 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: so their approach offensively, what would be different, especially on 536 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,440 Speaker 1: three being up just one nor the Cowboys had a 537 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 1: kicker who can kick a sixty three yards. You're not 538 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: just automatically running the ball into That's why you can't 539 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: play that game. But to night, that thought crossed my 540 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: by that how at least they were going to get 541 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: the ball at the twenty five right, and then when 542 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:44,320 Speaker 1: they punted, you're not catching the punt at the what 543 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: did they catch it at the forty six? You know 544 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 1: he could have gained He could have gained easily ten 545 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: yards before he went out of bounds on the left sideline, 546 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,720 Speaker 1: but the time would would have taken Instead of seventeen seconds, 547 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,840 Speaker 1: you probably would have had twelve. What you think about, well, 548 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: and then you don't have to you didn't have to 549 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 1: go out of bound. No, he didn't, I understand, but 550 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: he would have because that's where he was headed. That's 551 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: where the opening was. But again, to me, it was 552 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 1: in his mind that he was calling a fair catch 553 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: because he didn't even look to see where everybody was. 554 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,760 Speaker 1: He was already And what you see Jason said about it, Well, 555 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: they told him if if you don't see an opportunity 556 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: nor south, don't waste any time, you know, make and 557 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: so it sounded like he d have vision, he did 558 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: have a green light that he could do it if 559 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 1: he saw the opportunity. Yeah, it wasn't like they just 560 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: told him flat out fair catch. It the veteran putt returner. 561 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: They left it up to him, I think. Did Jason 562 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: not say in hindsight, maybe you do that a little differently? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, 563 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: because he could have He probably could have gained ten yards, 564 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,000 Speaker 1: but it would have taken five seconds, but run a 565 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: play would take the five seconds too, right right, I mean, 566 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,360 Speaker 1: well they ended up getting four plays out of it, 567 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 1: right right. Yeah, they didn't. They didn't go for the 568 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: hell Mary early. They tried this is what they do 569 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: before the half sometimes with Witton or Jarwin. They tried 570 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: to get those quick outs and just get out of 571 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: bounds and give yourself a little a little closer should 572 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: have fooled him and tried to hail Mary twice. Well, 573 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: it's see, if you got a little bit closer there, 574 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: then you can try that hail mary twice. Zimmer's response was, 575 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: the other problem on take on the hail Mary twice. 576 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: It takes longer to run that play that well, it 577 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: can't get intercepted, it can't get The thing I thought 578 00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: about was like, and Nick did too, It's like, and 579 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 1: I doubt this is the case, but you are you 580 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: worried about a penalty block in the back or something. 581 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: Just don't do anything that's going to compromise our field 582 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 1: position here. Just fair catch it and then let's let's 583 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: start from there. But the other case, the other part 584 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,680 Speaker 1: of that was he wasn't going to have any blockers 585 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: because they all rushed, so they probably wouldn't have committed 586 00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: a penalty if you just told him rushed and stand there. 587 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,959 Speaker 1: So it was a it was a you know, I mean, 588 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: he could have caught it and got some more yards, 589 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: but it would have burned some clock, so, um, well, 590 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 1: what they're scared of it? He would have done one 591 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 1: in his whirlish derby the type things and try to 592 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: run this way and run that way, and the next 593 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 1: thing you know, there's five seconds left in the game. Yeah, yeah, 594 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,240 Speaker 1: and in he might have done that. Wh I think 595 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: it was a whirless derby, whirless derby, whorlish derby. Okay, 596 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: how to transpose the issue? Okay, all right? We speaking 597 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: of transposing. Bicky's got his read coming up, Dexter, I'll 598 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 1: talk at Cowboys Since eighteen sixty five, Stetson hats are 599 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: American maid with pride right here in Texas, and Stetson 600 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: is proud to be on the field with America's team. 601 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 1: Want to show your Texas and team pride too? You 602 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: can by purchasing your own Stetson. 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Yeah, let's do that deep dive glycolic facial cleanser, 645 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:38,920 Speaker 1: Boom Clean break, oil free moisturizer, turbo wash, energizing cleanser. 646 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,400 Speaker 1: Shop Now, hey, do y'all have your Christmas lights up yet? No? 647 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 1: It's November eleventh. That's better ends day. We took down 648 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: Halloween on Saturday. Okay, blow behind. We're supposed to do 649 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,799 Speaker 1: that already. My next door neighbor, the Aggie next door 650 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,600 Speaker 1: has his Christmas lights. He not only has the Christmas 651 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,920 Speaker 1: lights up, they are on, shining brightly. Why does he 652 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: have to be an aggie? Was there something? Because there's 653 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: any decoration in the front. I got you. I'm sure 654 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,759 Speaker 1: you're Christmas decorations. You have the aggie football player out there, right, 655 00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 1: I don't I do it a requirement of all aggies. 656 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: They've got the aggie football player out with their Christmas 657 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 1: decorations right right alongside Jesus twelfth Man out there. I 658 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,560 Speaker 1: married a Baylor Bear, so that's not allowed. But I 659 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,800 Speaker 1: have seen that around Texas. That's right. The one of 660 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:32,320 Speaker 1: the wise men is an Aggie football player that Texas. 661 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:38,520 Speaker 1: That's right, all right. Here's Aaron and new Brunfulls Texas. Hello, Aaron, Hi, 662 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:43,320 Speaker 1: good morning, gentlemen. I appreciate all the hard work you 663 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,400 Speaker 1: do on your show. I listened to it faithfully, so 664 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Um. Going into the game last night, 665 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,560 Speaker 1: I feel like the game was lost in the flesh quarter. 666 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,919 Speaker 1: We just could not get it going offensively or defensively. 667 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:03,320 Speaker 1: And I'm wondering why the coaching staff has this hubris 668 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 1: or attitude that we're going to do what we're going 669 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,000 Speaker 1: to do and it's going to be that way, and 670 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 1: that's it. With good coaching dictates that you change your 671 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:19,719 Speaker 1: game plan according to what other teams give you. And 672 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: I feel our coaching staff just doesn't meet the task 673 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:28,800 Speaker 1: when it comes to that. They don't adjust and change 674 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,480 Speaker 1: to what the defense will give him. Last night, Dak 675 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,920 Speaker 1: had the hot hand clearly, but they didn't want to 676 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 1: seem to go with that. They wanted to seem to 677 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,759 Speaker 1: try to pound at will. The ball was zeke. You 678 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 1: just have to give what the defense gives you and 679 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen to your analysis. Thank you, guys. 680 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:53,640 Speaker 1: Well that it was a great word there, Hubris. That 681 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,279 Speaker 1: is our word of the day, Hubris, which he ascribes 682 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:03,680 Speaker 1: a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence, 683 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:09,319 Speaker 1: often in combination with arrogance our nerve. There's another word 684 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,479 Speaker 1: starts with a be with it too. Your eyebrows raised 685 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,600 Speaker 1: a Hubri smick. What do you think of that? So 686 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,799 Speaker 1: I was wondering what he was talking about, because that's 687 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: why I looked up Hubris. The Vikings were not overplaying 688 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,279 Speaker 1: the run. They were basically inviting them to run. They 689 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: were blitzing a lot, but they were blitzing on passing downs. 690 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,120 Speaker 1: I didn't see a lot of aid and nine man fronts. 691 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,719 Speaker 1: They were basically when they did that, the Cowboys were 692 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,400 Speaker 1: throwing the ball when they got bottled up there on 693 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,640 Speaker 1: that last possession when they went three wide, they had 694 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 1: four down linemen and two linebackers and that was it. 695 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:49,560 Speaker 1: So I would like to know what he mentioned. The 696 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 1: first two possessions, they basically moved the ball and they 697 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,920 Speaker 1: threw it. So I'm not sure what he meant by that. 698 00:38:57,880 --> 00:38:59,680 Speaker 1: I guess running on first time, what if you run 699 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 1: on second down? Is that okay? Like, throw it on 700 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,200 Speaker 1: first down and run on second down? Does that make 701 00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,520 Speaker 1: everybody feel better? They did run a lot on first down, 702 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,800 Speaker 1: they did, and found themselves in a lot of second 703 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,439 Speaker 1: and nine, and I mean, I mean that was the case. 704 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,399 Speaker 1: I think the first wet drives they went and Zeke 705 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,880 Speaker 1: went for three, and then he went for two, and 706 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,640 Speaker 1: then he went for four, and then the first downs, yeah, 707 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,879 Speaker 1: and then they threw and they converted on the first two, 708 00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,120 Speaker 1: and then they kicked the field goal on the third 709 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,880 Speaker 1: after getting the second first down. I mean, all that said, 710 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 1: dak Press got through forty six times. I mean, it's 711 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,960 Speaker 1: it's not like they didn't they refused to take advantage 712 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: in the passing game, but they did run a lot 713 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,120 Speaker 1: on first down, and they didn't have success doing it. 714 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't can't argue that point. So what 715 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,920 Speaker 1: if you don't have success running on second down? Is 716 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:52,560 Speaker 1: that lessen the Okay, well, okay, wait a second. Let's 717 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:55,719 Speaker 1: go to their first touchdown drive. They Yeah, they ran 718 00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:00,080 Speaker 1: first and ten, they ran Zeke plus two, then they 719 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: threw it on second and they got sacked, and then 720 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: they had a great twenty yard completion to Cooper to 721 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,760 Speaker 1: keep the drive alive on third and twelve. That's whereas 722 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,640 Speaker 1: and then they ran on the sideline there, tiptoe on 723 00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,680 Speaker 1: these three circus catches, and then they didn't run Zeke, 724 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,080 Speaker 1: but they ran Tavon on the next first down, and 725 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,400 Speaker 1: then twenty three yard touchdown to Gallop. So that was 726 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 1: a successful drive that started with a Zeke first down run. Okay, 727 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,640 Speaker 1: next time they had the ball, they were incomplete on 728 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,960 Speaker 1: first down through it to Cooper first down, then that 729 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,560 Speaker 1: first down Zeke minus two, but they were still able 730 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,480 Speaker 1: to convert a third and twelve to Gallop for fifteen. 731 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: Then on that first down, it was Zeke plus six, 732 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,359 Speaker 1: longest run right, and then they got down to third 733 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 1: down again and a complete to Jarwin for twenty three. 734 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 1: And so they had two Zeke first down runs on 735 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,120 Speaker 1: that drive and it resulted in a touchdown drive. And 736 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,239 Speaker 1: then on first and ten at the twenty five, they 737 00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: tried to reverse Cobb passs no, but he is opened, 738 00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,560 Speaker 1: and he did the smart thing. He basically threw it 739 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,320 Speaker 1: out of bound. And what they do on second and 740 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,879 Speaker 1: ten they gave it to Zeke plus three and then 741 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,000 Speaker 1: on third and seven touchdown past the Cobb. Okay, so 742 00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:15,640 Speaker 1: it didn't just severely. Still, they scored touchdowns on those drives, 743 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,399 Speaker 1: so it's not every time they give it to Zeke 744 00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,320 Speaker 1: and then they don't have success on the drives. But 745 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,000 Speaker 1: that was later in the game, so it was they 746 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,759 Speaker 1: were ready to play by then, right, Yeah, yeah, that's 747 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: what they were better prepared. That's right. You know you 748 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,799 Speaker 1: were if you reverse what happened if they scored at 749 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:39,600 Speaker 1: the end. Here we're talking about how resilient this football 750 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 1: team is, and they gave up a lot of yards 751 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,520 Speaker 1: to the leading rusher in the league, but they still 752 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,480 Speaker 1: found a way to win and Dak Prescott and Mary 753 00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,840 Speaker 1: Cooper were terrific, and Reynold Cobb broke out and all that. 754 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,760 Speaker 1: I mean, there was a lot of good that happened 755 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,640 Speaker 1: in this game. Obviously, it just wasn't enough, and well 756 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:54,719 Speaker 1: and you lose, I mean, you focus on what they 757 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,840 Speaker 1: didn't do right. And one of the biggest issues in 758 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,920 Speaker 1: the game was they had ball one time in the 759 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 1: third quarter. Yeah, I mean the time of possession was 760 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,440 Speaker 1: through the roof for Minnesota in the third quarter they 761 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,200 Speaker 1: had they had the ball for twelve minutes and twenty 762 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,520 Speaker 1: one seconds. I think the Dalvin Cook touchdown drive. It 763 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,680 Speaker 1: was a thirteen play drive and they ran eleven times 764 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,200 Speaker 1: with Cook and Madison seven minute drive and just you know, 765 00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,960 Speaker 1: just hammered them up front. You know, that was that 766 00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,160 Speaker 1: was a terrific drive and that was kind of symptomatic 767 00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,799 Speaker 1: of the entire game, or at least the second half, 768 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:31,440 Speaker 1: where they got the line of scrimmage controlled. And so 769 00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,360 Speaker 1: it was a Minnesota long drive sixty six yards for 770 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,000 Speaker 1: a field goal to start the second half. Cowboys came 771 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,400 Speaker 1: back quickly, scored in just a two minute drive, scored 772 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,480 Speaker 1: a touchdown to take the lead, but then the Vikings 773 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: were able to hammer it down the field, and I 774 00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,240 Speaker 1: mean they were talking you want to talk about running 775 00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:54,880 Speaker 1: the football? Yes, Cook for two, two passes. It was 776 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:59,680 Speaker 1: Madison for four, Cook for six, Cook for fourteen, Madison 777 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:04,480 Speaker 1: for well, Madison for three, Madison for sixteen, penalty Cook 778 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,600 Speaker 1: for one, Cook for four. They finally threw the ball 779 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,080 Speaker 1: on third and goal and then Cook on fourth and 780 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:14,560 Speaker 1: goal at the one scored the touchdown. I believe that's 781 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:18,279 Speaker 1: called persistence. Well, and he also took a pretty good 782 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,560 Speaker 1: chance there going for it on fourth right. And then 783 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:23,399 Speaker 1: when they were they were able to run the ball 784 00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,520 Speaker 1: in this game, and then went for the two point conversion, 785 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 1: which was so big because you get to the end 786 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:30,160 Speaker 1: of the game and maybe a long Mahr field goal 787 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,560 Speaker 1: ties it, or had Maher hit the fifty seven yard 788 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:37,439 Speaker 1: or they would have never gone for two mm could 789 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,239 Speaker 1: it would have should Yep, But that's how close these 790 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,000 Speaker 1: games are, That's right. I think DeMarcus Lawrence talked for 791 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,560 Speaker 1: a while and I think he was finally given up, 792 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,480 Speaker 1: and he finally looked at me and he goes, you 793 00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:51,919 Speaker 1: know what goes, somebody's gonna win and somebody's got Yeah. 794 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: It was a hell of a game. That's right. Yeah, 795 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,880 Speaker 1: if you just wentn't a loss to the Jets. Now 796 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:01,000 Speaker 1: both on that one. All right? That does it for 797 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,000 Speaker 1: a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys. The break is next 798 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,920 Speaker 1: and we'll talk at you again tomorrow. This has been 799 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,120 Speaker 1: a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas 800 00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:12,359 Speaker 1: Cowboys Football Club.